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Source: Medicaid nursing home survey data and finance data, housing data Findings: “…a shortage of places for the disabled to live outside a nursing home and regulations that critics say make it hard to qualify for home services mean many who want out continue to receive expensive nursing care.”

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Sometimes you have to scrape it. That usually involves programs that automate searching tasks on Web sites. Where’s the data?

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Sometimes, there is no data. But it’s okay because there are techniques for sampling and building a database. (more about that tomorrow)

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Where’s the data? Sometimes data enhances a story But most of the time it’s the base that a story is built on Stories don’t end at the data – we must find people to tell the stories

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Source: City Budget Findings: Some neighborhoods suffer more than others as mayor cuts budgets

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Source: Salary data and other charter school records Findings: Reporters Found nepotism in charter schools and administrators earning six-figure salaries to run schools with only a few hundred or a couple of thousand students

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SOURCE: Local health department inspection reports FINDINGS: At 28% of the venues, more than half of the concession stands or restaurants had been cited for at least one "critical" or "major" health violation.

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Source: EPA and state data on hazardous chemical locations Findings: Dallas County has 900+ sites that store hazardous chemicals

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Source: Medicaid outcomes data for dialysis facilities Findings: A CMS online tool did not tell the whole story about facilities. In some counties the gap in measures, such as survival rate were vast.

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KING-TV Seattle DATA: P ayroll records, time sheets and other data and documents from Washington State Ferries. FINDINGS: The rolling investigation uncovered serious problems within the country's largest ferry system - the Washington State Ferries. State employees ignored millions of taxpayer dollars in questionable spending. There was practically no internal review or accountability.

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DATA : workplace safety inspections FINDINGS : FINDINGS : Workers in many dangerous industries get a small fraction of the attention from inspectors that construction workers do. Two of Washington's most injury–prone industries get Almost no attention from workplace safety inspectors: Nursing homes and Hospitals

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SOURCE: voter rolls, school staff list FINDINGS FINDINGS : teachers living in Lee County, Florida didn't turn out as expected for the Lee County Supervisor of Election. 48% of staff vs. 53% voter turnout

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Source: Washington Health Department data Findings: “MRSA has been quietly killing in hospitals for decades.” But no one had tracked it until this story.